Why would Sea-Level Rise for Global Warming and Polar Ice-Melt?

Aftab Alam Khan

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... sequences and parasequences. 1 Most of us who had Physics in secondary school know that there is no such thing as “centrifugal force”, that it is simply...

Chapter 98: Conglomeratic Channels, Brockie Lake, Idaho, USA

T. H. Nilsen, G. S. Steffens, B. E. Prather

AAPG Special Volumes

... and sedimentation characterize the basin. The unit appears to form the lower lowstand portion of a second-order, tectonically driven sequence that grades upward...

Unconventional pattern of reservoir facies distribution in epeiric successions: Lessons from an outcrop analog (Lower Keuper, Germany)

Michael Poppelreiter, Thomas Aigner

AAPG Bulletin

.... P., E. R. Gustason, and B. B. Sageman, 1994, Correlation of basinal carbonate cycles to nearshore parasequences in the Late Cretaceous Greenhorn...

Regional Late Paleozoic Tectono-Stratigraphic Settings and Perspectives for Discoveries at the Pricaspian Basin's Northwestern Margin, Russia, by Yuri Nikitin, Sergei Ostapenko and Dolson, John, #10127 (2007).

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A Tectonostratigraphic History of Orphan Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada, #10703 (2015).

Lynn T. Dafoe, Charlotte E. Keen, Graham L. Williams, Sonya A. Dehler

Search and Discovery.com

... sequences were predominated by shales formed under quiet waters with low oxygenation and little faunal content (Figure 2). Fluctuations in relative sea...

Introduction

Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, Art H. Saller, J. A. (Toni) Simo

Special Publications of SEPM

... to States Their work indicates that source accumulate during fourth order lowstands results from but thick evapor a accumulated rate of subsidence...

Road Log, Day Four: Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of the Downdip Castlegate Sandstone in the Book Cliffs of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah

John C. Van Wagoner

AAPG Special Volumes

... vertically into distal lower-shoreface hummocky strata. These deposits form several thin parasequences, which stack into a progradational...

Paleostructure Association, Lithofacies Architecture, and Reservoir Quality of the Upper James Lime (Pearsall Fm, Lower Cretaceous) in the Poplarville Field, Pearl River Co., Mississippi

Robert Loucks l, Cole Abel , Mark Ver Hoeve

GCAGS Transactions

... of two third-order sequences (LZB-4.1 and 4.2 of Haq et al., 1987; Fig. 4). The depositional environments of the lithofacies units reflect these sea...

Sedimentology, Ichnology and Stratigraphy of the Ostracode Member (Lower Cretaceous) in the Jenner-Suffield Area, Southeast Alberta

Rhea L. Karvonen, S. George Pemberton

CSPG Special Publications

... vertical sequences in barred nearshore systems, southern Oregon coast. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 49, p. 711-726. Hume G.S. 1939...

Multiorder Sequence Stratigraphy in the Triassic System of the Western Southern Alps

Maurizio Gaetani, Mario Gnaccolini, Flavio Jadoul, Eduardo Garzanti

Special Publications of SEPM

.... The Middle Triassic supersequence (A-L) and the Carnian supersequence (C) may be subdivided into five and four sequences, respectively. The fourth...

Biofacies and Lithofacies Evidence for Paleoenvironmental Interpretations of Upper Neogene Sequences on the New Jersey Continental Shelf (ODP Leg 174A)

Miriam E. Katz, Kenneth G. Miller, Gregory S. Mountain

Special Publications of SEPM

... sequences consist of lowstand, transgressive, and highstand deposits, with repeated flooding surfaces indicating parasequences. We propose that the erosion...

A revised Triassic stratigraphic framework for the Arctic Alaska Basin

Katherine J. Whidden, Julie A. Dumoulin, and William A. Rouse

AAPG Bulletin

...) analyzed core and wire-line log data from wells across northern Alaska and interpreted two complete third-order sequences in the Shublik, as well...

Stratigraphy, Depositional Modelling and Resource Characterization of the McMurray/Wabiskaw Deposit, Western Portion of the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Northeastern Alberta

Daryl M. Wightman, Rudy S. Strobl, Darrell K. Cotterill, Habtemicael Berhane, Michelle N. Attalla

CSPG Special Publications

... margin sequences. In: Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach. C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hastings, C.G.St.C. Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A. Ross and J.C....

Landry Formation of Kugaluk N-02 well (Devonian, northern mainland NWT): insight into formation’s boundaries, lithofacies, and stratal stacking patterns

P. B. Kabanov

CSPG Bulletin

... deposits of that age have not been found. Fourth-order T-R sequences (cyclothems) provide a subzonal tool for regional and even continent-wide...

Seismic Sequences and Facies of Siliciclastic Deep-Water Deposits with Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration

Charles J. Stuart

Pacific Section SEPM

... of several thousand meters pulse mid-frequency may decrease to 25-30 hz, generating wavelengths on the order of 100 m in sand/shale sequences. Based...

Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Middle Ordovician Hawaz Formation (Murzuq Basin, Libya)

Emilio Ramos, Mariano Marzo, Jordi M. de Gibert, Khaeri S. Tawengi, Abdalla A. Khoja, Nstor D. Bolatti

AAPG Bulletin

... the Hawaz Formation into five third-order depositional sequences. Lowstand deposits were not identified. The lower boundaries of transgressive systems...

AAPG 2002 Field Guide (Update 2025) to Whale Valley and Greater Fayoum Area, Egypt: a 23-Year Retrospective on AAPGs Role in Creating a UNESCO World Heritage Site; #11390 (2025)

John C. Dolson, Ahmed El-Barkooky

Search and Discovery.com

... Member at Whale Valley-sequences, facies, ichnology – The debate on sequence boundaries: are these Mangrove roots or crustacean burrows? – Tidal Delta...

Stratigraphy and facies of Cambrian to Lower Ordovician strata in Saskatchewan

James Dixon

CSPG Bulletin

..., in ascending order, are the informally named Basal Sandstone Unit overlain by the Earlie Formation and Deadwood Formation. Strata of the Basal Sandstone Unit...

A Regional Geologic Framework for the Athabasca Oil Sands, Northeastern Alberta, Canada

Frances J. Hein, Graham Dolby, Brent Fairgrieve

AAPG Special Volumes

... transgression from the early McMurray to the Clearwater. These are likely fourth- or higher order parasequences that resulted from balances...

Stratigraphic distribution of the Codell Sandstone in the Denver Basin using wireline logs and core

Virginia Gent, Mark W. Longman, Richard J. Bottjer, James W. Hagadorn

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., in ascending order: a lower bioturbated siltstone to very fine-grained sandstone ranging from 2 to 20 feet thick, a middle 2- to 10-foot thick laminated...

Field Guide for Valley-Fill, Estuarine and Shelf Ridge Sandstones, Mid-Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Central Wyoming

Roderick W. Tillman, E. Allen Merewether

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... parasequences in Cretaceous upper Frontier (Wall Creek) sandstone (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 73, p. 1161. Huff...

Traces In the Dark—Sedimentary Processes and Facies Gradients In the Upper Shale Member of the Upper Devonian–Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota, U.S.A

Sven O. Egenhoff, Neil S. Fishman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... States portion of Williston Basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 67, p. 2165– 2174. Sloss, L.L., 1963, Sequences...

Anatomy of a Sequence Boundary-Lower Cretaceous Glen Rose/Fredericksburg, Central Texas Platform

Clyde H. Moore

GCAGS Transactions

... genetic stratigraphy into a modern sequence stratigraphic framework consisting of four third order sedimentary sequences. In this paper we will dissect...

Submarine Fan Chronostratigraphy from Wheeler-Transformed ION BasinSPAN Seismic Data, Late Cretaceous - Tertiary, Offshore Tanzania

Katie-Joe McDonough, Eric Bouanga, Claire Pierard, Edward J. Sterne, James W. Granath, Al Danforth, Jon S. Gross

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... deposit ional mega-sequences, higher-order interva ls w ere relatively steep. If these deposits comp rise phase constitutes one Sloss-scale (Sloss...

Process Regime Changes Across a Regressive to Transgressive Turnaround in a Shelf–Slope Basin, Eocene Central Basin of Spitsbergen

Anna Ponten, Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and tide-dominated estuarine deposits in high-frequency (fourth-order) sequences of the Eocene Central Basin, Spitsbergen: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 391...